Yes, former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC). I considered
his action a deus ex machina.

The caterwauling and refrain that
Atiku is a political philanderer are hollow when put in the context of an
amensal relationship. The former vice president had stayed long enough in a
party he helped to nurture with corporeal resources and commitment, but sadly,
there was no reciprocity of trust, goodwill and loyalty on the part of the APC.

It is like in a marriage. The
parties to it must maintain an intercourse of trust, love and loyalty. When these
essential ingredients evaporate the union will atrophy. The marriage between Atiku and the APC was an
arranged one – the seed of love and loyalty seldom germinates from an
“unnatural” process.

As it is said in our lingo, the
APC used and dumped Atiku. This is why I see his departure from the party as an
escape from political abuse.

Before we start analysing
inanities like – Atiku left the PDP for the APC, now he is going back to the
PDP – let us cogitate on the primary reason he left.

The former vice-president gave
this reason: “While other parties have purged themselves of the arbitrariness
and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalisation, the All Progressives
Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them to
institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within
the party and the government it produced.”

Politics is all about interest.
It is pliable and malleable. Again, the lowest common factor of the game is
interest. So, why should Atiku remain in a party that has given him the cold
shoulder? Politics is also laissez-faire. There is free entry and free exit!

In addition, the APC government
went beyond the remit of brotherly wrangling when it clamped down on businesses
linked to Atiku. Though the government tried to justify its action, the
political undertones were loud enough.

Atiku’s decision takes great courage,
and this should be respected. It is clear that there is no political nirvana
anywhere.